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Embracing Myōga Crest (Daki-Myōga-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Historical Context

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Kenmon Shokamon (見聞諸家紋, c. 1467–1470) is a Muromachi album of warrior-house drawings. The Ninomiya plate is the embracing myōga pair; gyōyō plates in the same album are a different leaf type. Later shrine and Edo house usage must not be read back as this Kenmon type: Nikkō’s daki-myōga is a Matarajin mikoshi ornament, and Tōshō-gū’s shrine mark is Tokugawa aoi. Yanagawa 立花 used gyōyō.

Provenance: Kenmon Shokamon drawing attested for Ninomiya as daki-myōga. Gyōyō is separately drawn in the same album, including maru-ni daki-gyōyō for 垪和.

Research status: reviewed · reviewed 31/08/2026

Sources

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  1. 見聞諸家紋 (Kenmon Shokamon)

    見聞諸家紋, c. 1467–1470 (also 東山殿御紋帳). Muromachi album of warrior-house drawings; type-names on surviving copies are later labels, not original Muromachi captions. (National Diet Library (later transcript))

    Supports: Supports daki-myōga as a Kenmon drawing attested for Ninomiya, and gyōyō as separately drawn plates in the same album including maru-ni daki-gyōyō for 垪和. Does not make Nikkō daki-myōga a Tōshō-gū shrine mark or identify Yanagawa 立花 with myōga.

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Embracing Myōga Crest (Daki-Myōga-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Two inward-facing Japanese ginger buds (daki-myōga), the Kenmon type recorded for Ninomiya.

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